While Earth’s storms swirl with wind and rain, Mars unleashes clouds of fine, gritty dust that sometimes engulf the entire planet in a rust-colored haze. These storms, it turns out, may be ...

Groundbreaking research into Mars' energy balance reveals a polar surplus driving dynamic weather patterns, including massive ...

NASA's Curiosity rover unveils weather secrets on Mars, from high-altitude icy clouds to extensive dust storms, enriching ...

Dust storms on Mars were first observed by an astronomer using a telescope in 1796, according to NASA — and yet today, the powerful storms that can engulf the entire planet are still a mystery.

A nasty dust storm is wrapping around Mars, and visibility in some regions is so poor that the skies look like night during the middle of the day. It's a dire moment for NASA's Opportunity rover ...

Scientists looking into the cause of mammoth dust storms that can sweep across nearly all of Mars think they’ve discovered a key factor behind these rollicking storms. The driving forces behind ...

Conditions at the surface of Mars are enigmatic and complex and have varied substantially over the course of the planet’s history. The roles of erosion, transport and chemical weathering in ...

Dust storms: Travelling around the room using leaps ... to make a fun fact file about Mars. Cool down: Using the imagery of dust settling to allow the children to sink to the floor in a light ...

In a new study, planetary scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have begun to unravel the factors that kick off major dust storms on Mars—weather events that sometimes engulf the ...

A comparison image of the planet Mars revealed that a global dust storm engulfed the planet in 2001. ... [+] (Photo by NASA/Getty Images) Understanding the red planet’s seasons is especially ...